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Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by grovulent » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 9:24 AM UTC

initself wrote: post #50

Latest News: 3:30am (EST): Some hosts were damaged by the power outage and we are working on moving these Linodes to hot standby equipment. Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

DOES? I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to sparkle motion...

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by sandaru1 » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 9:30 AM UTC

initself wrote: post #50

Latest News: 3:30am (EST): Some hosts were damaged by the power outage and we are working on moving these Linodes to hot standby equipment. Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

>> Please tell me that does mean potential data loss!

Looks like it's not. Our server just went up - after the damage notication. Data seems to be intact.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by le » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 10:05 AM UTC

The Fremont datacenter, if I remember correctly, is at Hurricane Electric. They had power issues in 2009 as well.

http://blog.feedly.com/2009/11/03/24-minutes-of-unscheduled-...

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

#54

Post by jinhow » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 10:59 AM UTC

jinhow wrote: post #32

Still wait for the reboot jobs. maybe I should move to EC2.

my server is back.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by uggedal » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 11:10 AM UTC

theDoug wrote: post #4

liuliu wrote: post #3

I noticed this an hour later because my monitor script was set up in the same datacenter. Lesson learned.

I have zero affiliation with the group, apart from being a casual user but http://wasitup.com/ has come in handy for me quite often. Even for free, it'll do a check 20 times an hour.

Just keep in mind that I host http://wasitup.com in Linode's London facilities. Data center redundancy has been on my TODO list for some time now.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 11:26 AM UTC

initself wrote: post #50

Latest News: 3:30am (EST): Some hosts were damaged by the power outage and we are working on moving these Linodes to hot standby equipment. Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

> Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

That's not a problem. You have backups of course.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 11:29 AM UTC

revicon wrote: post #40

initself wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here.

And here as well. Am I justified in being pissed about this outage, or am I failing in my responsibilities by relying on a company like linode to keep my site up?

If you get a single server/vps from anyone, you should assume that it might go down for a few hours at any point. If that's a problem for you, you should create your own redundancy. No matter how much redundancy your provider claims.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 11:32 AM UTC

jinhow wrote: post #32

Still wait for the reboot jobs. maybe I should move to EC2.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/

Their SLA says 99.95% uptime. What has your Linode uptime been?

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 11:33 AM UTC

pyre wrote: post #11

initself wrote: post #2

When it went down, I quickly realized my addiction to Twitter via irssi.

What are you using?

I get access to Twitter via IRC by using Bitlbee.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by delano » Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 6:08 PM UTC

jfb wrote: post #15

I had just brought up a new instance. Why not choose Fremont? It's right down the .... oh dammit.

That's a good case in point. In general you're better off choosing locations further away from where you live/work to prevent issues like this where your office/home and datacenter could be affected at the same time.